Improvement in binders or hemmers for sewing-machines



UNITE I CHARLES H. YOUNG, OF CONCORD, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JONAS B. AIKEN, OF FRANKLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BINDERS OR HEMMERS FOR SEWING-NIAQHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,624, dated November 3,1874; application filed May' 13, 1874.

To all ywhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. YOUNG, of Concord, of the county of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in'Hemmers or Binders for Sewing-Machines; and do hereby declare the same to be fullyr described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which;

Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, Figs. 3 and 4 are end views, Fig. 5 a transverse section, and Fig. 6 a horizontal section, of a hemmer and binder provided with my invention. Fig. 7 is a front View,

and Fig. 8 is an end view, of a presser of theform I prefer for aiding in effecting the binding of a knit fabric, the presser shown in the other gures being longer, and adapted for common woven cloth. Fig. 9 is a bottom view, and Fig. 10 an end view, of another form of hemmerr, to be used with the back guide and the tongue to be hereinafter described.

In carrying out my invention, I combine with .the hemmer or binder, and the back guide connected therewith, (whether the hemmer or'binder be stationary or adjustable with reference to such guide,) a tongue extended from a slitted arm and along in front of the guide, such tongue being to keep the fabric close up to the guide'while passing to the hemmer or binder, and from thence under the presser or device extended over the work to prevent it`from rising with the needle. The said tongue, consisting of a thin strip of steel or ,other proper metal, I attach to the fore part of a slitted and bent arm or guidev projecting from the back guide.

In the' drawings, A denotes the back guide, and B the curved and slitted arm, open at bottom, as shown. C is the tongue; D, the binder, which, formed as shown, answers as a hemmer as well as a binder. E is the presser or device for holding down the work during the rise of the needle out of it. F is the support-plate of the back guide, and G is the cap-plate arranged over the plate F and the shank a of the binder D, and having the presser projecting from it, as shown. H

is a clampscrew which goes through the capplate and a slot, b, in the shank a of the binder, (see Fig. l1, which is a top view, and

Fig. 12, which is an edge view of the binder,) and screws into the support-plate F.

It will be seen that the binder is adjustable with reference to the backguide, and,

within certain limits, can be fixed at any distance therefrom.

The hemmer shown in Figs. 9 and l0 may be substituted for the compoundhemmer and binder, or binder, as I term it, shown in Figs. 11 and 12.

The braid or binding, with the cloth, is to be run through the slitted arm, and thence between the back guide and the tongue, thence through the binder, and thence underneath the presser, the needle of the sewing-machine being to work through a hole, h, in the presser. The tongue keeps the cloth, braid, or binding close up to the back guide, in order to prevent displacement of the binding or the cloth.

It also effects a tension of the braid or bind' In binding knit work, my improvement saves all necessity fof first basting the binding to the fabric.

I claim as my invention as follows, viz:

The back guide A, curved slotted arm B, tongue C, hemmer or binder D, presser E, support-plate F, and slotted cap-plate G, provided with the clamp-screw H, all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and de scribed. l

CHAS. H. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, J. 1t. SNow. 

